Did you know, for example, that Israelis eat more turkey than any other nationality?
In honor of Thanksgiving, we present five things you may not have known about the holiday we're celebrating today: Source: The University of Illinois Extension
Canadian Turkeys, carving the lobster and a turkey the size of a dog.
No need to worry about conversation topics around the Thanksgiving dinner table. Let your guests fill up on these Thanksgiving fun facts.
How much will we spend this year? And what's the best-selling Christmas song of all time? Find the answers below.
We know that there were three Wise Men, 12 days of Christmas and that Santa delivers all his presents around the world in one night. But did you know... $23,439.38 How much it would cost to buy your "true love" all the gifts in the 12 Day of Christmas . 12.9 billion hours, $447 billion How many hours Americans were expected to spend shopping, wrapping and returning gifts last year. That was about 42 hours and $688.87 per person. Get your postman/postwoman a gift According to Hallmark, Christmas is the largest card-sending occasion . Nearly 1.5 billion cards are sent to friends and family every Christmas Season. (That's actually down 400 million cards since 2004.) $983 million The value of U.S. imports of Christmas tree ornaments from …
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There's much more to know about St. Patrick's Day beyond green beer, the wearing o' the green and "Kiss Me -- I'm Irish."
Here’s what most of us know about St. Patrick’s Day. It’s the day on which: a) green beer is consumed, b) the Chicago River is dyed green and c) all things Irish are celebrated. But there’s far more to the holiday, which we celebrate Saturday. Can you answer these questions? 1. The day on which St. Patrick died, which is believed to be March 17, 461 AD. 2. England. He was the son of a Roman-British army officer. 3. As a boy, he was kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland. When he escaped, he returned to Britain, studied at a French monastery and returned to Ireland, where he spent 30 years as a missionary devoted to converting pagans to Christianity. 4. Hope 5. Watches over them and decides who gets into heaven. 6. Maewyn …
Did you know, for example, that Israelis eat more turkey than any other nationality?
In honor of Thanksgiving, we present five things you may not have known about the holiday we're celebrating today: Source: The University of Illinois Extension
The 7th annual Plainfield Historical Society trivia night mixed third-grade history with knowledge of the generations.
Plainfield history buffs took a night out Tuesday to see whether they were smarter than third-graders. A couple dozen contestants clustered around card tables at township hall for the Plainfield Historical Society's seventh annual trivia night. Third grade was a recurring theme throughout the 10 rounds of friendly quizzing, as this year’s trivia test was peppered with local history questions from a new third-grade curriculum chronicling Plainfield’s pioneer days at Fort Beggs. “Name four types of weapons gathered by settlers at Fort Beggs,” interrogator Sue Hasenyager challenged. Guns, sticks, axes, hatchets, scythes and pitchforks were good answers. Bows and arrows were not. That’s what the other guys had. “I was going to make everybody …
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